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(shí) - ten, 10 in Mandarin

shí

Traditional: 時

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Translation

ten, 10

Word origin

时 (shí) is a phono-semantic compound of 日, the sun radical, and 寺 (sì) as the phonetic. The sun radical relates it to time, giving the sense 'time', 'hour' or 'when'. The recorded translation 'ten' belongs to the homophone 十 and appears to be a data error, so this slug is flagged for review.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
日 (sun radical) + 寺 (sì, phonetic)

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Examples

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He is ten years old this year.

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In ten minutes.

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Perfect in every way.

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It is three in the afternoon.

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At that time we were all still young.

时 (shí) means ten, 10. It is used as a numeral in everyday Mandarin speech.

Appears in 15 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 时.

什么时候shénme shíhouwhen时候shí hòutime, moment, period时间shí jiāntime (duration/point)小时xiǎo shíhour当时dāng shíat the time, at that time, then那时nà shíat that time, then有时yǒu shísometimes同时tóng shíat the same time, meanwhile, simultaneously有时候yǒu shí hòusometimes随时suí shíat any time, anytime时刻shí kèmoment, time, constantly时代shí dàiera, age, epoch, times暂时zàn shítemporary, for the time being, momentarily时间轴shí jiān zhóutimeline, time axis小时候xiǎo shí hòuin childhood, when one was little

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